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HI Danielle thank you for the vid log D548 you are amazing,you truly are without a doubt " The Queen of Hearts " I bow to thee my queen....
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Several of the things you have written and videoed in recent postings lead me to suggest the following. It seems you were less than enthusiastic about the Halloween costume party expedition to Las Vegas with your girlfriendS (you did not say how many they were, if any, more than two). What if next time you guys wanted an adventure together, you thought about foregoing the total costs of travel, lodging, and other expenses, like travel time, and pooled your funds to finance a special party in Phoenix?
In Las Vegas, there are zillions of dollars invested in architecture and the like to let you imagine you are in some foreign country, like France, or a historical era, like that of Ancient Rome. While you obviously can't match the grandeur of such an operation, what if you instead enjoyed authenticity, by engaging a foreign students organization at ASU to throw a party celebrating their culture's past or present, with appropriate food, music, costume, decoration, or theatrics (included recorded ones)? The web page here lists the following EXISTING clubs at ASU: Coalition of International Students Chinese Students and Scholars Association Fulbright International Student Association at ASU Indian Students Association Iranian Students Association Kazakhstan Student Association Korean Students Association Saudi Students Club Singapore Student Association PERMIAS - Indonesian Student Association Philippine American Student Association Qatari Student Association Taiwanese Student Association The Kuwaiti Club ASU Turkish Student Association Some of these groups take pains to explicitly say they welcome participation by everyone. By the way, if I have to say this, not infrequently students will study outside their native countries to ESCAPE their families, native culture, legal or political circumstances, and some might even be more inclined to satirize (or just forget) things back home than celebrate them! The existing organizations listed above do not exhaust the variety of nationalities which ASU tries to attract, one imagines with at least partial success. The page here indicates that ASU admission information is available in all of the following languages: Portuguese (think Brazil) Spanish (think most of Latin America) Thai Indonesian Vietnamese Japanese Korean Mandarin Turkish Holding the party on campus might be a way to stretch the party budget because of access to cheap or free meeting space. And it would be a way to make it easy for students without cars to attend or even serve to earn a couple bucks. I know Phoenix is not New York or Paris, but as a major metropolis, I'm sure there are at least some ethnic restaurants (and maybe even grocers) to help make things go. Such a party would also be a way to meet other students (maybe even those who would inspire you by their example or even their friendship to persevere in your studies through the term and the years to come.) And who knows? Perhaps you'd even get to meet some nice boys there - foreign or American. Finally, by making authentic contact with foreign cultures, you might be in a better position to stage interesting settings for your video productions - and maybe even generate bait which helps you land more foreign customers. Not every foreign culture is as porn-friendly as the USA, but in some cases that just means potential fans there are all the more hungry for such fare. And on the other hand, I'd argue that a country like Japan is even MORE porn-friendly than the States. As a typical Millennial Generation Sailor Moon fan, you probably know that in Japan, adults as well as children are interested in things like drawn cartoon books ("manga") and animated versions ("anime"). But the popular adult fare there has no popular parallel in the United States. As an example, consider the animated series Ah, My Buddha! ("Amaenaide yo!"). Wikipedia writes of it: The show was broadcast in Japan with an R-15 rating, which is the Japanese equivalent of a 'Restricted' rating... The protagonist of the series is [a 16-year-old] monk-in-training... who transforms into a super-monk with the ability to perform mass exorcisms... He lives in a temple run by his grandma along with six teenage nuns-in-training. And how does he transform when needed? Simple! One or more of the nuns sexually arose him by doing something like flashing him, LOL! And afterwards, the ungrateful be-atches usually kick the $hit out of him for getting horny in the first place. And you thought Sookie and her friends cornered the market on odd supernatural sexcapades! You could watch a typical (half-hour) episode of Ah, My Buddha!, dubbed into English, here, but instead, I'd advise you to invest your limited time in viewing the three documentary videos I will now mention. Learn quickly about Japan's sexual heritage and culture via a largely-English-audio 14-minute clip from a year 2000 BBC-Japanese co-production here. (Or avoid the login, at the disadvantage of Vietnamese captions which overwrite the English ones, here.) Then, if you have an hour to spare, I'd have you watch two half-hour episodes from Japanorama, a fast-moving, fun-loving three-season documentary series on contemporary Japanese culture produced by the BBC in the previous calendar decade. Alas, it will be another year until the BBC starts to sell its back-catalog of programming in the US via Internet video on demand. Until then, you can cheat by viewing these two programs at the following places online. First watch the season 1, episode 3 program, titled Sex, here. Then watch the season 3, episode 2 program, titled Ai and Koi (Love and Romance), here. And to beat a dead horse, Chroma-Key is a great way to enjoy an exotic, even foreign, set without busting the production budget. ![]() Last edited by RonTheLogician; 10-16-2015 at 02:17 PM. Reason: mention & link to episodes of Japanorama |
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Hey Dani,
Getting back to the issue of lame and faithless Halloween costumes, it just struck me that Game of Thrones provides a treasure-trove of creative ideas for horrific and identifiable Halloween characters and costumes! Sure enough, some quick Googling proves this has been a popular idea for some time now. If this struck your fancy, I know you would be stormborn-tempted to go all Queen of Meereen on us - not the least because of the name and golden locks. But LB & Isis look silly in wings - and Isis would rather to play down the violence vibe in her life, given what her namesake does in the Mideast these days. So I'd like to suggest you instead consider the path less taken, engaging your sword fetish for a tour of duty as Brienne of Tarth! Finally, with soooo many characters in GoT, surely any of your fellow macabre merry-makers would have a wide range of characters from which to choose. And besides, how hard is it to stick a few fake knives into one's ketchup-bloodied gut and make like a Red Wedding non-survivor? Sheesh! ![]() |
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Hey Dani,
I recently caught up with the recent months of your video logs, save the last four (617-620). First, let me thank you for heeding my simple advice about lighting. I see you now hang an opaque cloth behind you, and provide task-specific lighting from the front. I'd like three-point lighting and a ChromaKey background even better, but what you are doing is fine. One suggestion: don't wear glasses if you can help it, because glaring light reflections obliterate your pretty eyes! Thank you for inviting us to limited preview of your renewed webcam work. Can I make a suggestion that might help pass the time when clients are taciturn or too few in number? Today when people say "porn," they tacitly expect you to imagine full-color, low-noise, video material - including even VR stuff. But once upon a time, porn almost exclusively consisted of verbal stories, like "naughty" novels; Lady Chatterly was among the first. Be careful about straining your voice (keep a drink at hand), but consider reading "dirty" stories during your Webcam shows to fill any awkward lulls in the action - and maybe even turn on the clientele. (Given your aversion to video relative to reading, I'd be surprised if the thought never crossed your mind at all!) If you have any aspiration to do "straight" acting or even voice-over work, it would be good practice, too. I've always felt that one can benefit by knowledge of one's craft and industry, and to this end I'd like to suggest you review three germane video titles about which you may not know. They allow you to glimpse the changing industry over the decades, with the aspiration that the exercise may help you have realistic ideas about the future. 1. Behind the Scenes of an Adult Movie (1984) 100 minutes [IAFD link] From the last years of the celluloid era. It's title says it all. This film was a Best Classic Release nominee at the 2010 AVN Awards. Best of all, you get to see someone named "Danielle" performing with your "boyfriend," Ron Jeremy! (Maybe I never should have shown you that YouTube comedy piece about women who love porn, which leverages Jeremy's biologically inevitable declining appeal as he reaches his last years; I think the guy was decent-looking in his youth, if you go for the Mediterranean type.) 2. How They Make Adult Movies (1997) 54 minutes [IMDb link] [MDiD link] From the height of the videotape era. Again, a very descriptive title. 3. Jade - Why I Chose Porn - BBC Three (2016) 39 minutes [YouTube copy] The story of a slightly younger British colleague of yours in today's Internet-centric world. (The BBC screwed around for several years, trying to make its content available world-wide for a fee, but evidently they are not as competent as you and the FTV guys, sigh!) Given the subject of this post, I've decided to integrate the revision of a related post about a book immediately below, and delete the original copy. ================== We all know you are a bookworm, so I want to commend to your attention a significant new book JUST (2016) published by Britain's Oxford University Press, titled The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know. (I think it's a real steal at US$17.) Having quickly read the book, I think it lives up to the promotional review blurbs the publisher provides online here. Given its (book) format, one is especially impressed how it stays up-to-date with last-minute developments! I really think everyone in your business should make time to read a serious book like this. *SIGH* - if only such books had been available to me when I was your age and looking to enter, and prosper in, a particular field of work! If you do read this book, it would be interesting to hear your thoughts about it in a vlog. And because it includes a history of the industry, it might even give you some product ideas. Best always, RtL Last edited by RonTheLogician; 09-07-2016 at 04:36 PM. Reason: mend typo |
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Hey Dani,
In a recent vlog you expressed the ambition to start watching Game of Thrones from HBO, as you are a fan of the book series. The show has amazing production values, like that of a feature film, including very realistic-looking CGI dragons which interact with the human cast. As I recall, each hour-long show, which leverages a cast of about 200 and a crew of roughly 800 others, not to mention the extras sometimes used, has a budget of about US$10 million! Starting with the third season of the six exhibited so far, the Funny Or Die web site has been producing a short video synopsis for each weekly show, all of which you can find online here. Called Gay of Thrones, these hilarious reviews star Jonathan, the swishiest West Hollywood hairdresser you will ever meet, who leverages one's knowledge of popular culture to help keep track of the enormous cast of characters, as he recounts the latest episode to a (quasi-)celebrity customer on whom he is working. Why not spare three minutes now and pick any of these shorts to be sold on the concept - and the HBO series as well! |
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As far as the reading erotic stories goes....I absolutely hate reading out loud. The only time I will really read a story out loud is when I'm reading my nephew a bed time story.
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video log D627 your vacation... Edinburgh is pronounced "Edinburra" by us heathen scots:
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Hey Dani,
I know you've always loved butterflies, which is probably why your grandma gave you the large, century-old painting you so love, which on naive inspection features one such critter. But what you fail to realize is that a conventional butterfly is not sitting on a woman's back. Instead, what the viewer sees is a chimera! In particular, this is a representation of the mythical ancient Greek heroine Psyche, wife of the god Eros/Cupid, he the son of Aphrodite/Venus, the goddess of (sexual) love. In times gone by, such as America long ago, these now-quaint myths not only provided entertaining stories and pretty images, but also a way to discuss - and even celebrate - once-tabu subjects like sex. The legend of Psyche and Eros was left to us within a 2nd C work called Metamorphoses (or The Golden A$$), the only novel to survive whole from Latin-speaking ancient Rome. (This novel is often sexually explicit, and inspired a wonderful modern derivative erotic graphic novel by the artist Manara, also called The Golden A$$, cf. here.) Through the ages, Psyche and Eros have been the subject of many stories, plays, paintings, statues, etc. The Wikipedia synopsis is here. This complex tale and its rich symbolism plausibly provide inspiration for many significant details of much younger stories like Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. My favorite telling is Alison de Vere's 1994 wordless musical animated film, Psyche and Eros, illustrated here. It was shown on Britain's Channel Four, but I've no idea where to buy a copy. In recent years, a pirated copy sits here. My personal favorite painting of a solitary Psyche is Guillaume Seignac's 1904 Le Reveil de Psyche (in English, The Awakening of Psyche), a contemporary to your own painting. Here it is: My personal favorite painting of Psyche with Eros is William Adolphe Bouguereau's 1889 Psyche et L'Amour, shown just below. The museum owning it publishes a video discussing it here. Let's now examine some of the story's symbolism. While both Eros and Psyche have wings, her wings are, UNlike his, not the traditional bird wings of various mythological chimeras (e.g. the sphinx), but uniquely those of the butterfly. This is because they represent the inner labia, which they so resemble, just as Eros' penetrating arrows represent the penis. (For more about female genitals and the butterfly, cf. e.g. RFSU's 2012 animated sex ed film Sex on the Map here.) According to Freud, the couple's depiction in flight represents coitus. And long before Freud, the German euphemism voegln (in English, birding) meant coitus as well. Even the word we use for orgasm, climax, reflects ascension skyward: it comes from the Greek word for ladder. This psychological association between flying and f*cking seems to transcend era and nationality; long before you were born, US TV was packed with National Airline ads in which pretty young female flight attendants stared into your eyes, admonishing you to "Fly me!" Find an example here. That you not miss their subliminal meaning, eventually ads would include copy like "I'm gonna fly you like you've never been flown before!" Competitors would rise to the challenge with their own salacious innuendos; Air France ads would ask: "Have you ever done it the French way?" I'm sure your elders have vivid memories of such advertising! Perhaps the ultimate celebration of the connection between flying and f*cking was a segment of the 1979 Bob Fosse biopic All That Jazz, in which we were invited to board a plane operated by "Airotica." Watch this unforgettable musical performance here. By the time it is over, a healthy man watching this will find his "gear" secured in the upright and locked position! Since you probably associate Psyche's hubby Eros (i.e. Cupid) with Valentine's Day, through which romantic love is celebrated, let me comment on its symbolism as well. The icon of the day is a highly stylized graphic we call a "heart" into which Cupid ejaculates his bow-launched arrows. But as any anatomist could tell you, this symbolic "heart" looks NOTHING like a real human heart, but instead like the butterfly-shaped thing below! So don't ask why Eros appears without Psyche in today's Valentine's Day artwork - she's there after all. Given that it won't do in many places today to call the Valentine's Day symbol a c@nt, why has the euphemism of the heart been chosen for it? Observe that emotional agitation (e.g. as experienced during coitus) is accompanied by increased heart rate and blood pressure, making us aware of the existence of an organ we normally ignore - the heart. Note the close visual resemblance between the stylized heart symbol and the vulva was exploited in the trailer for a film called Heart Throbs (IAFD entry here), as illustrated here. By the way, the current Wikipedia article on the heart symbol claims it never represented what it does today before the 14th century. Now let me digress for a paragraph and speculate about a famous euphemistic phrase refering to the mechanics of human reproduction: the birds and the bees. No definitive explanation has appeared for its origin, although you often read that the 1825 writing of Samuel Taylor Coleridge has the honor. Whatever the truth, I'd like to observe that its underlying psychology curiously reflects matters including human genital anatomy. A small bird looks somewhat like male genitals in size and shape, especially if its neck it long. And the bee, in resembling the butterfly, looks somewhat like female genitals in size and shape. And of course, both birds and bees take flight, which reprises the discussion of flight as a symbol for coitus! Returning to the matter of Valentine's Day, this Christian saint's festival falls on the day when the pre-Christian Romans had a fertility celebration called Lupercalia, which you see portrayed early in Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. Men would run (nearly?) naked through the streets and strike women who wanted to bear children or enjoy easier deliveries with straps of animal skin, which "magic" rather obviously symbolized fertilization. (Note our word "f*cking" or the German word "ficken" are cognates of the German word "flicken", meaning "to strike.") Spring-time fertility festivals are widespread, albeit often sublimated from their aboriginal forms, especially in places where highly sex-phobic religions like Christianity have now dominated for centuries. One example, which marginally resembles Lupercalia, still takes place in rural Hungary during Easter, where, in public, men "come" on the bodies of young women using water (or sometimes perfume), as shown in the video here. The linked video idly claims it is "more innocent than a wet teeshirt contest" - YEAH, my CUM-SWOLLEN BALLS it is, LOL! Sometimes this custom is called "Ducking Monday", as Easter Monday is the likeliest day on which it takes place; I guess that's more polite than calling it "F*cking Monday"! Extra-vaginal ejaculation onto one's beloved is the subject of a well-known song from 1984, Pretty Mess by Vanity. As I write, you can find its official music video more or less intact here. The song lyrics are published here. Those who have trouble discerning the sexual symbolism of the visuals or the lyrics can read the explanatory song review here, evidently penned by someone who finds songs of this type culturally dirty. Perhaps you are surprised to see Eros/Cupid portrayed as a sexually mature adult in the painting above, rather than as an infant, which representation was my own consistent experience until middle age. The ancients did not always depict Eros/Cupid as an infant with a bow and quiver. Another common form showed a young adult riding a dolphin, a rather phallic symbol itself, such as in the pair of mosaics shown below, preserved in the house of Amphitrite in what was in ancient times Bulla Regia, in today's Tunisia. [continued in next post] Last edited by RonTheLogician; 03-10-2017 at 12:49 PM. Reason: More about Metamorpheses; cite Heart Throbs |
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Yep, I recently found this out and now feel like a dork for mispronouncing it. Though, listen to the way most Americans pronounce Worcestershire. You want to talk about butchering the pronunciation of a word lol.
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